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If time heals all wounds, the month between TUDOR United SportsCar Championship rounds wasn't long enough to smooth over the wrong doings and enflamed emotions that followed the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. Honestly, it would be silly to expect IMSA to untangle its mess in the span of one race; between the officiating errors and the ensuing damage that was done to its reputation, those inside...

Bryan Herta was still a driver, three years away from becoming an Indy 500-winning team owner. Pat Long was a Porsche prototype driver for Roger Penske. Flying Lizard Motorsports fielded three GT2 Porsches. Lucas Luhr was a factory Audi pilot and his teammates Frank Biela and Marco Werner had yet to retire. Corvette Racing was well-versed in racing among themselves in GT1. Team owner Greg Loles h...

After running the Nos. 01 and 02 Riley-Ford EcoBoost turbo Daytona Prototypes during the first two rounds of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates will field a single entry this weekend at the Tequila PatrÃ³n Sports Car Showcase At Long Beach. The team will also have four Verizon IndyCar Series entries competing at Long Beach, making for an especially bus...

As the only full-time Ferrari GTLM entrant, Risi Competizione, has had the most extraordinary and unfortunate of starts to its 2014 season. The Houston-based team now though plans to reset back to zero, put the incidents and accidents of Daytona and Sebring firmly behind it, and start the season afresh. Thanks to the indefatigable efforts of the whole Risi team, the No.62 Risi Ferrari 458 Italia ...

Citing apprehensions over what took place with officiating during last month's Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring and other dissatisfactions with the start of the new TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, RACER has learned more than a half-dozen manufacturers have joined forces to present their concerns to the series' upper management as a united front. Manufacturer reps spanning the TUDOR Championsh...

Memo Gidley, who suffered serious injuried in a crash during the Rolex 24 at Daytona, published the following open letter to fans on his personal website, http://memogidley.com/, thanking them for their support during his recovery process: Hello everybody and thanks so much for your support! I wish I could respond and say thank you individually to everyone who has written and posted well wishes o...

There has been much rumor of an additional customer for a Ligier JS P2 Coupe for delivery later this year and Enzo Potolicchio today confirmed to DSC that he is the customer. The car looks set to be delivered with an HPD twin-turbo V6, which would mark the first time that the Honda P2 engine has been fitted to anything other than an HPD or Lola chassis with a program that could take in the final ...

SRT's decision to pull out of the Le Mans 24 Hours was motivated by a desire to focus on its attempt to win the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship in 2014, says Bill Riley. Riley, whose Riley Technologies team has developed and runs the two SRT Viper GTS-Rs, has elaborated on a brief statement made by Street Racing Technology boss Ralph Gilles about the withdrawal earlier this week. "Le Mans tak...

IMSA has weighed in on the fate of the two drivers who caused the most egregious crashes during the recent Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, and decided Matteo Malucelli and Gaston Kearby are deserving of one-race suspensions and probation for the following race. According to IMSA, the two were "determined to have violated Rule 48.4 (unjustifiable risk) of the 2014 IMSA Rules, Malucelli was penali...

Muscle Milk Pickett Racing has opted to sit out the next two rounds of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship at Long Beach and Laguna Seca to focus on reliability and performance testing with its ORECA Nissan. With the merger of the American Le Mans Series and the Grand-Am series, Pickett Racing had one of its shortest off-seasons and with only five weeks between receiving their car and having ...

Of the four classes competing at the Mobil 1 Twelve hours of Sebring on March 15, the PC field was nearly decimated, thanks to constant contact and a few jaw-dropping crashes. Only two of the 10 PCs that started the race were in contention for the win at the end of the 12-hour race, and half of the ORECA FLM09-Chevys were either in the dumpster or well behind the leaders by the time the checkered...

Race officials announced Tuesday that TUDOR Watch U.S.A. is an Official Sponsor and the Official Timepiece for the 40th Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, set to run April 11-13. As part of its sponsorship of the Grand Prix, TUDOR will also entitle the top-of-the-line hospitality suites available during race weekend, the TUDOR Pit Row Suites and TUDOR Pit Lane Club. In addition, TUDOR is the Entitl...

Peter Baron's Starworks Motorsport and Honda's HPD racing outfit partnered to field the brand's first Daytona Prototype engine at the recent Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, and with a disappointing run for the P2-derived twin-turbo V6 motor, not to mention a long list of improvements to be made for its next outing, the project has been tabled for the next few months. "Neither of us were happy wi...

Editor's note â No one who watched this year's Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring needs to be told that, although there were plenty of racing thrills in all classes, there were way too many spills, too, as well as operational blunders that tended to exaggerate the consequences of the many incidents and accidents. We greatly appreciate Scott Atherton giving up an hour of his time to listen to RACER's...